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AI is suddenly everywhere. Do you need to go and get a shiny machine learning degree to remain competitive? John Maeda says not to worry. He’ll show you how to cook delicious dishes into your coding repertoire with his new show - Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen. Find new episodes here and at the official Microsoft Developers YouTube channel. Recommended resources Introducing semantic kernal building AI-based apps How leaders will use AI to unleash creativity Make AI your copilot 2023 Design in Tech Report: Design and Artificial Intelligence Related episodes AI with John Maeda | One Dev Question - Microsoft Learn AI with John Maeda | One Dev Question - YouTube

An interactive visualization showing train locations for Boston's Red, Orange, and Blue subway lines for Tuesday February 4, 2014.

The first-of-its-kind Online LLM API

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Contribute to tidyverse/tidyups development by creating an account on GitHub.

A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web

After coming up against the limits of physics, scientists are rethinking chip architecture like never before

Gerrymandering Project

A new study shows that white-collar employees who can work remotely now live roughly twice as far from their offices as they did prepandemic.

A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. Here's a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens.

It’s full of tricks and optical illusions.

The CEO pledged around $1 billion in Square equity to an LLC that will provide COVID-19 relief.

R, the language of choice for statistics, data analysis, and visualization, has a rich ecosystem of packages. While some, like ggplot2…

Explore the architecture of Lag-Llama and learn to apply it in a forecasting project using Python

There are thousands of McDonald’s locations, but there are still more golf courses in the United States. This seems surprising, but some maps make it clear.

Asian workers are more than three times more likely to be physicians. What other jobs jump out? What’s it like for other races and ethnicity?

Whether you heap on the habañero or think black pepper is too bold, here’s how and why your body reacts when you eat something spicy.

Blind users do not have access to the graphical output from R without printing the content of graphics windows to an embosser of some kind. This is not as immediate as is required for efficient access to statistical output. The functions here are created so that blind people can make even better use of R. This includes the text descriptions of graphs, convenience functions to replace the functionality offered in many GUI front ends, and experimental functionality for optimising graphical content to prepare it for embossing as tactile images.

The Global Coal Plant Tracker (GCPT) provides information on coal-fired power units from around the world generating 30 megawatts and above. The GCPT catalogues every operating coal-fired generating unit, every new unit proposed since 2010, and every unit retired since 2000. Units often consist of a boiler and turbine, and several units may make up … Continued

We isolated the vocals of 138 US National Anthem performances and compared each performer's pitch to the standard to see who is the ultimate diva.

How Spotify's expanding catalog reflects 2023's musical frontier

New Zealand leads, US ranks 53rd.

Time series simply represent data points over time. They are thus everywhere in nature and in business: temperatures, heartbeats, births…

On books, bans, censorship, and a little bit of AI

Output similarity is a distraction

Discover where the quietest places are in the loudest cities in the world, from Boston (USA) to Edinburgh (UK) and Vienna (Europe).